Terror Attacks Decline 40% During Bush Years--- Iraq Attacks Down 55% Last Year

It's all Bush's fault.
Terror attacks are down 40% since 2001.

Andrew Bolt and The Canadian Press reported this recent study:

A group of researchers from Simon Fraser University says global terrorism is on the decline, despite previous data and public perceptions that suggest otherwise.

The university's Human Security Report Project says fatalities from terrorist attacks around the world have, in fact, decreased by 40 per cent since 2001.

And... Total global terror attacks were down 40% late last year due to the 55% decrease in attacks in Iraq.
Reuters reported:

A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in fatal attacks of terrorism worldwide and says U.S. think-tank data showing sharp increases were distorted due to the inclusion of killings in Iraq.

"Even if the Iraq 'terrorism' data are included, there has still been a substantial decline in the global terrorism toll," said the 2007 Human Security Brief, an annual report funded by the governments of Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and Britain.

For example, global terrorism fatalities declined by 40 percent between July and September 2007, driven by a 55 percent decline in the "terrorism" death toll in Iraq after the so-called surge of new U.S. troops and a cease-fire by the Shi'ite militant Mehdi Army, the brief said.

42 Dead-- 13,000 Immigrants Flee South African Violence

42 immigrants were killed in immigrant attacks that have left over 6,000 immigrants homeless.


They're hacking up the immigrants in South Africa.

Gangs weilding axes marched through the streets. (Telegraph)

Over 13,000 immigrants have fled their homes during the xenophobic attacks.

A crowd, armed with clubs, machetes and axes, goes on a rampage during violent xenophobic clashes on the outskirts of Johannesburg. President Thabo Mbeki has made an impassioned appeal for South Africans to respect the dignity of foreigners as calls grew for troops to be sent in to stamp out xenophobic violence. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)

The Zulu based Inkatha Party is accused of organizing the attacks against the immigrants.
All Africa reported:

The violence that is targeting foreign nationals in South Africa on Wednesday spread to the volatile Zulu heartland of KwaZulu Natal.

At least 24 people have already been killed in the wave of attacks that erupted last week. Locals accuse the foreigners of taking away their jobs and fuelling the high crime rate in the country. Six immigrants were wounded when mobs attacked a Nigerian owned tavern in Durban Wednesday. Hundreds of people armed with bottles and stones rampaged through the area attacking Nigerians. An ANC official in the area accused the Zulu based Inkatha Freedom Party of organising the attacks. The IFP meanwhile denied the allegations and issued a statement saying they were saddened by the xenophobic attacks.

Over 3 million Zimbabweans are thought to be in South Africa and are bearing the brunt of the violence. The majority have fled political violence and economic hardship in Zimbabwe. Migrants from other African countries have been caught up in the violence. Thousands have now fled their homes and sought sanctuary in police stations, churches and premises used by aid groups. Officials on Wednesday began serious discussion on whether the army should be deployed to quell the unrest. President Thabo Mbeki's senior aide Essop Phahad confirmed that police, defence and justice departments were discussing possible troop deployment. The police have already asked the army for help with equipment to use in quelling the violence.

Rioters and residents from Reiger park flee as South African police fire rubbber bullets during clashes on the outskirts of Johannesburg on May 20, 2008. South African President Thabo Mbeki called in troops Wednesday to halt attacks on foreigners as the death toll from more than a week of violence nearly doubled and violence began to spread. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)

Previously:
HORROR In Johannesburg-- Immigrants Beaten & Burned Alive

Beautiful!! Obama Delegate Yee Was Arrested For Spying At Gitmo

James Yee Claims He Was Tortured & Abused For Speaking Out Against Gitmo
...Not because he was caught with a list of Gitmo detainees and interrogators in his belongings.

Obama Delegate Captain James J. Yee shares his story of torture and abuse under the Bush Regime in his appeal to be voted an Obama delegate:
(2 minutes of white hot moonbattery)

Yee says he rejected the cruel, degrading and tortuous treatment of prisoners (terrorists) who are and have been held there.

Yee says he was arrested for speaking out against the abuses against the Gitmo prisoners-- Not because a Customs agent found a list of Guantanamo detainees and interrogators among his belongings. Court-martial charges against Yee were dropped on March 19, 2004. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller cited that national security concerns would arise from the release of the evidence against him.

This Obama delegate says he was locked away in a Navy prison for 76 days in solitary confinement. He says at times he was even subjected to sensory deprivation and was threatened with the death penalty.

Yee will be an Obama delegate at the Democratic National Convention in August.

In another video Yee says he became aware of the desecration of the Koran while he was Gitmo Chaplain from his conversations with the terrorists.

Previously:
Ex-Gitmo Chaplain Cleared in Spy Case Is Obama Delegate

Iraqi Forces Will Take Over Security By Year's End

U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company, 1-22 Infantry Battalion distribute presents to Iraqi kids as they man a check-point on the edge of Shiite dominated Baghdad's neighbourhood of Shulla, May 21, 2008. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov)

Iraqi forces will take over security operations in the remaining provinces by the end of this year according to Iraqi President Talabani.

This will be a blessing for the Iraqi people if things work out this way.
Then, maybe the Democratic plan to surrender will not be so devastating if Obama or Hillary is elected in the fall.
Iraqi Aswat Aliraq News reported:

The Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Tuesday expected Iraqi forces would take control of security by the end of this year.

Speaking in press briefing at Suleimaniya airport before flying to Baghdad, Talabani said “Iraqi forces have been progressing and enhancing their combat capabilities to take control of security of all Iraqi territories.”

“Next year will witness a remarkable improvement in security across the country,” he added.

When asked about the proposed cabinet of Kurdistan’s regional government, he said “we must have patience,” noting “it would be formed soon.”

President Talabani held talks with Kurdistan’s regional President Massoud Barazani on the new cabinet for the Kurdish region.

The audience make a standing ovation as the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra performs during a concert at the International Convention centre in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone May 21, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud)

Related... The New York Times even reported positive news today on Iraq.

Gloomy Michelle Obama: " We're Taught to Keep It All In, Suffer, Just Hold It Down"

More Hope and Change...

Perky Michelle Obama left military wives in Kentucky with this hopeful message this week:

"We need to be more aware of the challenges these women are facing," she said. "I think it's so important for them to feel like they have a voice. We're taught as women to keep it all in and suffer and just hold it down."

Add this to the list of quotes by Mrs. Hope and Change:

** Michelle Obama Decides After 44 Years She Finally Can Stomach the US
** Michelle Obama's "Proud of My Country" Twofer (Video)
** Michelle Obama: "We're a Country That's Downright Mean"
** Oops!... She Did It Again- Michelle Obama Bashes Ignorant America! (Video)
** "You're alone in your failure." (Get me more white people!)
** "We're Guided By Fear... We're a Nation of Cynics, Sloths and Complacents"

Gee, Michelle would be a real treat to to have in the White House for 4 years, huh?

Kenyan Mob Burns Eleven 80 Year-Old Witches

A Kenyan mob dragged 11 people from their homes and torched them.
All of the suspected witches were over 80 years old.
The BBC reported:

Eleven people accused of being witches have been burned to death by a mob in the west of Kenya, police say.

A security operation has been launched to hunt down villagers suspected of killing them in Kisii District.

The area has witnessed similar attacks in the past when people suspected of engaging in witchcraft have been killed or ostracised.

But correspondents say that this is a surprisingly large number of people to be attacked at the same time.

The BBC's Muliro Telewa in the region says that the eight women and three men were not burned at the same time.

A list was used and villagers pulled them from their houses individually, attacked and burned them outside and then set their homes alight.

Villagers told reporters that they had evidence the victims, all aged over 80, were witches.

Bummer... Obama Advisors Bailing On His Open Invite To Ahmadinejad

Bummer-- Today, Obama's foreign policy expert admitted-
"You Don't Talk With Ahmadinejad"

Governor Bill Richardson echoed the Bush Administration and Senator John McCain today in confessing that talking with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be a horrible idea.
Barack Obama says he would meet with any vicious, anti-American regime leader during his first year in office including Iranian President Ahmadinejad without preconditions.

HotAir posted the video:


Governor Richardson then explains that you would talk with some other "moderate" Jew-hating regime official to hold talks with...
Like maybe Ayatollah Khamenei?
Some liberals believe he's not so bad and even that he's not a flagrant anti-Semite.
These people are dangerous.

** Related... Joe Klein at TIME Magazine still has not corrected his post where he claims that Obama never said he would negotiate--specifically, by name--with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He did.
Here's the video.

Someone ought to tell Klein to correct his inaccurate post.

More... The statement by Richardson today follows the confession yesterday by Obama supporter Tom Daschle who said that the meetings would not be unconditional:

Asked about Obama's original statement Tuesday morning on CNN, former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., a top Obama adviser and supporter, said top-level meetings would not be immediate -- and would not happen without preliminary extensive diplomatic work.

"I would not say that we would meet unconditionally," said Daschle. "Of course, there are conditions that we [would] involve in preparation in getting ready for the diplomacy. ... 'Without precondition' simply means we wouldn't put obstacles in the way of discussing the differences between us. That's really what they're saying, what Barack is saying."

And, then there is this stumble-mumble by Obama advisor Susan Rice:

Susan Rice, a top Obama foreign policy adviser, said Monday that Obama's meetings with Iranian leaders might not include Ahmadinejad.

"He said he'd meet with the appropriate Iranian leaders. He hasn't named who that leader will be," Rice said on CNN. "It would be the appropriate Iranian leadership at the appropriate time -- not necessarily Ahmadinejad."

Lebanon Gives In to Hezbollah

Hezbollah gains veto power-- Will keep their weapons.
The democratically elected Lebanese majority government gave in to Hezbollah terrorists during negotiations in Qatar.

The BBC reported:

Rival Lebanese leaders have agreed on steps to end the political deadlock that has led to the country's worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war.

The Western-backed government and the pro-Syrian opposition arrived at the deal after days of talks in Qatar.

Under the deal, the opposition - led by the Hezbollah political and militant group - will have the power of veto in a new cabinet of national unity.

It also paves the way for parliament to elect a new president.

The post has been empty since November.

Correspondents say the agreement is a major triumph for Hezbollah, whose key demands have been met.

Beirut to the Beltway has more on the agrrements that were made.

Lebanese Political Journal says that Hezbollah will keep their weapons.

This latest revolt seems to have worked out nicely for the Iranian-backed terror group.

UPDATE: Walid Phares writes on Hezbollah's takeover of Lebanon at The American Thinker including this final thought:

Observers believe this agreement is an expression of a defeat in the War on Terror against the Iranian-Syrian axis in the region.

That sounds about right.

Lieberman BLASTS Democrats & Far Left Obama

The last good Democrat blasted Far Left Barack Obama on his strange foreign policy plans to meet, without preconditions, with the most vicious, anti-American regimes on the planet.
The Wall Street Journal reported:

Today, less than a decade later, the parties have completely switched positions. The reversal began, like so much else in our time, on September 11, 2001. The attack on America by Islamist terrorists shook President Bush from the foreign policy course he was on. He saw September 11 for what it was: a direct ideological and military attack on us and our way of life. If the Democratic Party had stayed where it was in 2000, America could have confronted the terrorists with unity and strength in the years after 9/11.

Instead a debate soon began within the Democratic Party about how to respond to Mr. Bush. I felt strongly that Democrats should embrace the basic framework the president had advanced for the war on terror as our own, because it was our own. But that was not the choice most Democratic leaders made. When total victory did not come quickly in Iraq, the old voices of partisanship and peace at any price saw an opportunity to reassert themselves. By considering centrism to be collaboration with the enemy – not bin Laden, but Mr. Bush – activists have successfully pulled the Democratic Party further to the left than it has been at any point in the last 20 years.

Far too many Democratic leaders have kowtowed to these opinions rather than challenging them. That unfortunately includes Barack Obama, who, contrary to his rhetorical invocations of bipartisan change, has not been willing to stand up to his party's left wing on a single significant national security or international economic issue in this campaign.

In this, Sen. Obama stands in stark contrast to John McCain, who has shown the political courage throughout his career to do what he thinks is right – regardless of its popularity in his party or outside it.

John also understands something else that too many Democrats seem to have become confused about lately – the difference between America's friends and America's enemies.

There are of course times when it makes sense to engage in tough diplomacy with hostile governments. Yet what Mr. Obama has proposed is not selective engagement, but a blanket policy of meeting personally as president, without preconditions, in his first year in office, with the leaders of the most vicious, anti-American regimes on the planet.

Mr. Obama has said that in proposing this, he is following in the footsteps of Reagan and JFK. But Kennedy never met with Castro, and Reagan never met with Khomeini. And can anyone imagine Presidents Kennedy or Reagan sitting down unconditionally with Ahmadinejad or Chavez? I certainly cannot.

If a president ever embraced our worst enemies in this way, he would strengthen them and undermine our most steadfast allies.

The Iranian Fars News is reporting today that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates also is against holding talks with Iran.

Peruvian Nazis Rally Against Jews (Video)

Former Bolivian Congressman and political dissident Jose Brechner sends this video from Peru.
Nazis rally against the Jews in a video produced by Aljazeera:
(5 minutes 34 seconds)


Once again, the Jews make an easy scapegoat- This time in Peru.
In Peru, one political party teaches peasants that the imperialist Jews are behind the nation's poverty.

The neo-Nazi groups chant, "Down with Zionist Imperialism!" The peasants are taught that the Jews in Peru control the government but there are only 3,000 Jews in the country and maybe 3 who hold seats in the Peruvian government.

Sick! Pat Buchanan Bashes Bush & Defends Hitler

** Thanks to One Jerusalem for pointing this out today.

Town Hall is a very respected conservative news organization with plenty of talented writers.
But, Town Hall ought to be ashamed of publishing this trash today!

Not even Obama and the Democrats stooped this low...

Pat Buchanan bashed President Bush and praised Hitler at Town Hall in a weird take on Bush's Knesset speech.
Buchanan blames Poland(?) for World War II:

Bush Plays the Hitler Card

Addressing the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's birth, Bush said those who say we should negotiate with Iran or Hamas are like the fools who said we should negotiate with Adolf Hitler.

"As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared, 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement. ..."

Again, Bush has made a hash of history.

Appeasement is the name given to what Neville Chamberlain did at Munich in September 1938. Rather than fight Germany in another great war -- to keep 3.5 million Germans under a Czech rule they despised -- he agreed to their peaceful transfer to German rule. With these Germans went the lands their ancestors had lived upon for centuries, German Bohemia, or the Sudetenland.

Chamberlain's negotiated deal with Hitler averted a European war -- at the expense of the Czech nation. That was appeasement.

German tanks, however, did not roll into Poland until a year later, Sept. 1, 1939. Why did the tanks roll? Because Poland refused to negotiate over Danzig, a Baltic port of 350,000 that was 95 percent German and had been taken from Germany at the Paris peace conference of 1919, in violation of Wilson's 14 Points and his principle of self-determination.

Hitler had not wanted war with Poland. He had wanted an alliance with Poland in his anti-Comintern pact against Joseph Stalin.

Obviously, Buchanan believes Hitler's "peaceful" takeover of the Czech nation was a good thing.
That is pretty twisted.

There's much more.

Earlier this year, Buchanan's American Conservative played the Nazi card against Rudy Giuliani and colored him in as a storm trooper on the cover:

Charles Johnson wrote more on this stunt by Pat Buchanan at the time.

Sunni Imam: "Allah Will Send American Gorbachev From Within to Take Down Empire"

A Sunni cleric says, "Allah will soon send an American Gorbachev to end the American Empire."

Gee... Who comes to mind first?


Add this guy to Obama's foreign fan club.

Hillary Spanks Obama in Kentucky ...Update: BOXER BOY Is in the Audience!! ...Update: Obama Celebrates Oregon Win in Iowa?

Hillary Spanks Obama 65% to 35% in Kentucky!

UPDATE: The traveling Hillary plant known as "Boxer Boy" for the bright red boxer gloves he wears is planted again behind Hillary in the Kentucky audience tonight!

The traveling audience plant was spotted in (left to right) Pennsylvania, Indiana, and West Virginia and he made it to Kentucky tonight. He's in the audience planted behind Hillary Clinton!
Unreal!

Here he is again in Kentucky...

It may not pay much... But, it's a job.

Here is video of Hillary Clinton's traveling audience plant in the audience behind Hillary in Kentucky:
(18 seconds)

Check out the right side of the screen for the bright red boxing gloves.

HILLARY WINS KENTUCKY

32% Of Kentucky Democrats Would Vote For Senator John McCain

FOX News reported:

Hillary Clinton has won the Kentucky Democratic primary, FOX News projects.

Exit polls indicate that the New York senator is winning by at least 2-to-1. She is capturing almost every demographic group, doing particularly well among the large group of white, working-class voters in the state.

Votes are still being counted in Oregon, which also is holding its primary, and early returns are not expected until later in the night. Polls closed Tuesday in Kentucky at 7 p.m. ET.

Barack Obama appeared ready to capture a majority of pledged delegates once the results of both contests are known. But he told FOX News earlier in the day he hasn’t “declared victory.”

With just 16 percent of precincts reporting in Kentucky, Clinton was leading 51-to-46 percent.

Seventy-one percent of white voters, 78 percent of seniors and 68 percent of voters without college degrees went for Clinton in Kentucky, according to FOX News exit polls.

The exit polls also showed 64 percent of Clinton voters still think the New York senator will take the nomination.

Pajamas Media is following the action today.

UPDATE 2: Obama celebrates his Oregon win in Iowa... There's probably a lot of Iowans suffering buyers remorse tonight after that Wright controversy.

There is no way Obama would have taken Iowa if the G-damn Wright tapes would have been released in December.

Obama is calling for parents to shut off the TV and read to children.
That goes with his theme yesterday: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."

That's odd-- Obama repeats his politics of fear line.

It's over. Boy, what an empty speech.
Just words.

Halleluiah! House Dems Solve Oil Crisis-- Will Sue OPEC

Halleluiah!
The Democratic Congress solved the oil crisis!

By developing new sources of petroleum?-- No
By drilling in ANWR?-- No
By drilling off the coast of Florida?-- No
By drilling off of the east coast?-- No
By drilling off of the west coast?-- No
By drilling off the Alaskan coast?-- No
By building oil refineries?-- No
By developing shale oil deposits?-- No
By adding nuclear energy production?-- No
By adding clean coal production?-- No

House Democrats passed legislation today to sue OPEC to bring down gas prices.
Brilliant-- A law suit against OPEC.

The Arab leaders ought to get a good belly laugh out of that.
Why is this not surprising?
Reuters reported:

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.

The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.

The measure passed in a 324-84 vote (Roll Call Here), a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.

The legislation also creates a Justice Department task force to aggressively investigate gasoline price gouging and energy market manipulation.

"This bill guarantees that oil prices will reflect supply and demand economic rules, instead of wildly speculative and perhaps illegal activities," said Democratic Rep. Steve Kagen of Wisconsin, who sponsored the legislation.

The lawmaker said Americans "are at the mercy" of OPEC for how much they pay for gasoline, which this week hit a record average of $3.79 a gallon.

The White House opposes the bill, saying that targeting OPEC investment in the United States as a source for damage awards "would likely spur retaliatory action against American interests in those countries and lead to a reduction in oil available to U.S. refiners."

It should be noted: When 103 Republicans agree with Democrats that suing OPEC is the right way to tackle the energy crisis, you know Republicans have a problem.

Meanwhile off the coast of Florida, China and Cuba are drilling for gas:

Democrats like to attack evil American oil companies and block them from drilling off our coasts. It doesn't seem to bother them when China starts drilling for oil in these same areas 50 miles from Key West.

Previously:
Thanks to Democratic "No Zones", the US Is in Grave Danger
It's Official, Cuba Hires China to Drill Oil Off Florida Coast
Despite Oil Crisis, Democrats AGAIN Block US Firms from Drilling!
Democrats Crack Gas Jokes Then Vote Against US Oil Development
Union Protesters Get Lost, End Up at White House
Democrats Fail to Prevent Senate Oil Drilling Bill from Passing
Despite Global Oil Crisis, Dems Will Block Drilling & Exploration!
In First 100 Hours, Democrats Propose Ban on Oil Drilling
Democrats Force American Energy Companies to Flee
Americans Can No Longer Afford the Pelosi-Reid Gas Prices
Pelosi-Reid Congress Sets Another Record... In Gas Prices
House Dems Pass Massive Tax Hike on Oil Companies to Bring Down Price of Fuel
So Much For That Pelosi Plan to Cut Gas Prices
Dems Mock Bush-- Vow No New Drilling or Nuclear Plants!!
This Will Be The #1 Issue in the 2008 Elections-- And, It Goes to Republicans

Buckley Tribute & Kennedy Diagnosis

The New York Conservative Party is having a dinner in honor of WFB next Thursday May 29. You can find out more about it and sign up to attend here.

Meanwhile... The Anchoress reports on the Teddy Kennedy's diagnosis.

HuffPo Blowing Hot Smoke For Obama-- "Khamenei Isn't Flagrant Anti-Semite"

Huffington Post Spins Furiously For Obamessiah

The Huffington Post is hoping to explain away Barack Obama's national security blunder on holding talks with any terror regime in the galaxy.

In a weird twist... The Huffington Post claims that Obama did not call for talks with Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, but instead called for talks with the grand poobah and spiritual leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khamenei.

And, according to The Huffington Post, this is not nearly as bad as calling for talks with Ahmadinejad because Khamenei isn't "quite the flagrant anti-Semite" that Mahmoud is:

As of today, John McCain was still accusing Obama of wanting to negotiate with Ahmadinejad. Why doesn't the McCain campaign and other assorted Republicans ever accuse Obama of wanting to negotiate with Khamenei? Well, because Khamenei isn't quite the flagrant anti-Semite Ahmadinejad is...and, as we keep hearing, Obama has a Jewish problem.

Here is what Obama said during a debate last year about talking with leaders from terror regimes:

Barack Obama, CNN Debate, July 23, 2007.

When asked: Would you be willing to meet separately without precondition during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL) answered: I would.

Today the Huffington Post is trying out a new line on this Obama gaffe.
They insist that by "leader" Obama meant "Ayatollah Khamenei" and not "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."

And, why is this a good thing?
Because, again, the Ayatollah is not "quite the flagrant anti-Semite" that Ahmadinejad is?
Let's look at that...

July 17, 2006:

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described Israel on Sunday as "satanic and cancerous" and praised the Lebanese group Hezbollah for its "jihad" against the Jewish state.

2001:

"This (Israel) is cancerous tumor of a state [Israel] should be removed from the region."

And, this:

"The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible."

On Hamas:

"The only way to succeed is to continue resistance against the occupier regime."

That was just a quick search- There's plenty more out there.
But, the deranged mind at the Huffington Post blog believe that Khamenei is not "quite the anti-Semite" that Mahmoud is.
Please.

UPDATE: Iranian Human Rights activist Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi adds this:

The photo below, is of a Norwegian Statoil Executive in Tehran, Iran. The poster behind him which bears a photo of Khomeini, clearly states both in Persian and in Arabic: "ISRAEL MUST BE WIPED OFF THE MAP OF THE EARTH." This photo was published in Statoil's own internal magazine in 2002/2003. I originally sent this photo out to everyone at that time and everyone summarily ignored it.

The fact that the Mullahs and every single member of the Islamic regime has repeated this specific sentence for years, as a matter of course, since Khomeini said it himself in the early years of the revolution, is somehow being ignored, as usual.

Regime Change Iran

UPDATE 2: Oops!! The Huffington Post and TIME missed this--
Video of Obama saying he would meet with Ahmadinejad.

Ex-Gitmo Chaplain Cleared in Spy Case Is Obama Delegate

More Hope and Change-

The former Gitmo Chaplain accused of spying was just elected an Obama delegate.
The AP and LGF Quick Links reported:

A former Army chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was cleared of spy accusations will be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

Former Capt. James J. Yee, a Muslim, was among the delegates pledged to Sen. Barack Obama who were elected by precinct representatives Saturday. He's representing the state's 9th Congressional District at the party's convention in Denver in August.

The West Point graduate was accused in 2003 of being part of a spy ring at the U.S. prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

Court-martial charges against Yee were dropped on March 19, 2004. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller cited that national security concerns would arise from the release of the evidence against him.
From his profile at Wikipedia:

On October 19, 2007, Syrian television broadcast its interview with Yee, in Arabic, where he repeated detainees' claims of Koran abuse on the part of the U.S. military.

In December 2007 Yee made a statement on Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks, who he regularly counselled while working at Guantanamo Bay. He said that he did not feel Hicks was a threat to Australia, and that "Any American soldier who has been through basic training has had 50 times more training than this guy."

Yee will be a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention from the 9th Congressional District of the state of Washington, pledged to support Barack Obama.

He Did It Again! Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) Attacks Troops

Antiwar Liberal Democrat Attacks Troops Visiting Capital Hill
This was posted by DM at the Power Line Forum:

A class of senior Army War College officers (all of whom are either Iraq or Afghanistan combat veterans with multiple deployments) were taking part on a tour of Congress. All of this was officially approved and part of the Army War College curriculum.

The officers observing Congress hold multiple bronze stars between them; and other citations too numerous to mention.


Congressman Pete Stark observed them in the gallery, and below is his official letter of outrage.

Below is the text of a letter sent today to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates by Representative Pete Stark (D-CA), regarding the possible abuse of military officers’ time.

May 16, 2008

The Honorable Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301

Dear Secretary Gates:

Yesterday, while voting on the war supplemental spending bill in the House of Representatives, I couldn’t help but notice a contingent of approximately 20 flag rank Army officers sitting in the House Gallery watching the debate and vote for a couple of hours. I was looking from below so I thought they were Army, but there could have been other branches present.

It’s possible they were on leave time or vacation. If so, I obviously have no concern. However, if they were doing this on military time, I want an explanation of why they were there.

At a time when our nation is at war, our troops are over-extended, and the Administration is literally asking for emergency military spending, what good to the “war on terror” is having US Generals and other top ranked officers - who were likely accompanied by staff and escorted by their chauffeurs - spending hours sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives?

Please provide for me the name, rank, branch, and duties of each of these officers, as well as the number of additional staff and drivers that were used to facilitate their attendance yesterday. I would like this information by Monday, May 19th.

If they were here on official duty, this was an abhorrent misallocation of our military resources at a time of war.

Sincerely,

Pete Stark

CC: The Honorable Ike Skelton, Chairman, Committee on Armed Services

CC: The Honorable Jack Murtha, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense

Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) is the same liberal democrat who said that:
"US soldiers were getting their heads blown off for the President's amusement."

Stay classy, Democrats!

UPDATE: Jordan has a great comment below on Stark's rank ignorance of military missions, priorities, and the duties of officers.

UPDATE 2: It's not just written attacks-- Military personnel are also getting verbally attacked in Washington DC -Via Instapundit.

SICKO-- Michael Moore Swipes Michael Yon's Photo

Antiwar propaganda artist Michael Moore swiped patriot Michael Yon's photo and pasted it on the top of his antimilitary, antiwar, anticapitalist, anti-Bush website:


Michael Moore used Michael Yon's award-winning photo in the header on his website:

Obviously, the word got back to Yon...
Michael Yon is aware of the infringement and wrote the antiwar Moore:

Many readers have complained that Michael Moore, in the conduct of his latest crusade against whatever he is against this month, has illegally used one of my photos on the banner of his website. Mr. Moore is not the first to have done so, and my readers can get pretty upset when it happens.

My lawyer has demanded that Mr. Moore take it down.

Michael Yon has more at his website.
Hat Tip Thresherman at Power Line Forum

McCain POUNDS Obama On Cuban Independence Day

Val Prieto is one Cuban-American who is not impressed with Obama's trade priorities:

Cartoonist Chip Bok

In 2004, Mr. Obama told an audience at Southern Illinois University that trade with Communist Cuba was a good thing.
In April 2008, Barack Obama said that trade with capitalist pro-American Colombia was a bad thing.
It makes perfect sense, huh?

Senator John McCain will continue to pound Barack Obama on his commitment to meet with rogue regimes without preconditions if he were elected president.
Today, McCain will be celebrating Cuba Independence Day in Miami.
Reuters reported:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain marks Cuban Independence Day on Tuesday with a fresh slap at Democratic front-runner Barack Obama for a pledge to meet Cuba's leader if elected in November.

Obama's vow to hold direct talks, without preconditions, with leaders of countries hostile to the United States, including Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba, has given McCain a broad opening to attack Obama over foreign policy.

He pounded Obama on Monday for pledging to meet the leader of Iran, saying to do so would reward a government in Tehran dedicated to destroying U.S. ally Israel.

At a town hall meeting in Miami, McCain planned to accuse Obama on Cuban Independence Day of wanting to soften the decades-old U.S. embargo against the communist government of Cuba.

Cuban-American voters, who typically have taken a unyielding stance toward dealings with the Cuban government, represent an important voting bloc in Florida, a battleground state in U.S. presidential elections.

Obama's pledge to hold direct talks with leaders of various countries hostile to the United States would also involve a meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro, McCain will say, sending "the worst possible signal to Cuba's dictators."

"I believe we should give hope to the Cuban people, not to the Castro regime," McCain will say, according to speech excerpts released by his campaign.

In 2004 Barack Obama promoted trade with Communist Cuba:
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Mr. Obama told an audience at Southern Illinois University during this panel discussion, "I think it's time for us to end the embargo with Cuba. ... It's time for us to acknowledge that that particular policy has failed."